[Fedora-directory-users] VLV index and uid attribute

[Ville Silventoinen]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, David Boreham wrote:

> Ville Silventoinen wrote:
>
>> This is not a major problem, I'm just curious why the above solution 
>> doesn't work? It looks like Console doesn't care what the vlvSort value is? 
>> I don't understand how it can sort with cn when there is no index.
>
> A client may present any VLV request it likes to the server.
> The server will attempt to service the request and respond.
> Indices are used if possible, but they are optional.
> So in your case the VLV requests made by the console
> would have become unindexed. If the number of entries
> is reasonably small performance would remain good.
>
David and Ulf: Thanks for the explanation. Looking forward for the new 
feature.

Cheers,
Ville